Case Study: BASF SE accelerates global value chain analysis with Neo4j

BASF SE analyzes global value chains in seconds with Neo4j, empowering 1,800 leaders

BASF SE, the world's largest chemical producer, faced a significant challenge in managing its complex global value chain. With 230 manufacturing sites and 70,000 suppliers, the company's traditional planning tools and spreadsheets were inefficient, forcing executives to spend weeks piecing together data to understand the downstream effects of decisions. They needed a solution to gain visibility and quickly analyze intricate interdependencies across their entire production network.

With the help of Neo4j's Professional Services and using the Neo4j Enterprise graph database, BASF built the WeDecide analytics platform. This solution mapped millions of connections between materials, costs, and processes, transforming weeks of analysis into seconds. The platform, which contains 1.5 billion nodes, empowered 1,800 strategists and proved invaluable during Europe's 2022 energy crisis by enabling rapid, informed decisions that saved weeks in strategic planning. Neo4j's solution provided a single source of truth and has paid for itself many times over.

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